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"Not your mother, that's for sure," she said "Give her a crisis and she'll go out and buy a new dress"

She flopped in the big chair in her bedroom and sat back with her arms over the cushioned sides

"I'reed to let you live with her, is not anything like me"

"That's a relief?'

"Don't be rude," she snapped She took a breath, looked out the , and turned back to me "She's very stuffy She and her husband Richard are quintessentially English Their lives are filled with codes of behavior that make the rules I live by look like chaos On top of that, you'll be living like one of her doht not be able to face them alone Every day they'll remind you of how lucky you are to be able to serve them"

I retorted, "Lucky I wonder every day what I did to be this lucky"

"You are a sassy child Well," she said with a sigh, "they can't expect that I purged you of all your willful ways in the short ti here with me There is only so much a person can accomplish, even someone like me"

"Why, Grand limits?"

"Do you want to giveso impudent?"

I smiled

She turned away to hide her own smile behind her hand and then shook her head

"I just can't i with Leonora It was a bad idea"

"I'ton, DC, Grandm

other Are there people being shot on the street in front of her hoon the corner ready to terrorize me?"

"She has her own hurdles for you to julish royalty All right," she said, nodding, her eyes shed deeply "You'll be spending most of your tire of a doctor signsexploited"